Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - Monday, June 19, 2006

In this post I talk about the upcoming release of .NET Framework 3.0, some hints about what I'm doing right now, how design time support is going for the ExtendedObjectDataSource package and a nice tip: how to debug design time stuff (the easy way ;)

Studying all the inner details of the data binding infrastructure and the data source controls pays off. I have created the first DataSourceControl with user interface I'm aware of, the PagerDataSource.

Some MSIL low level tools that could be useful, especially Deblector.

There is a free Http Module that performs XHTML validation for each ASPX pages that is served. I comment my experiences with it and some things like a big TreeView bug in ASP.NET 2.0.

Right now you can access to this blog just typing http://www.manuelabadia.com. However, in a few days that redirection will point to another page. So if you use http://www.manuelabadia.com to access to this blog, please use http://www.manuelabadia.com/blog.

I explored the different options to add URL rewriting support to an existing ASP.NET website. The options covered are IIS modules, HTTP modules and HTTP handlers and Virtual Path Providers.

In ASP.NET 2.0 it's easy to apply a Style object to an HtmlControl.

Some tips that you may find useful when working with design time stuff

Finally the VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch events came to my city.

My review of the book

This post is in spanish only as is about a local band.

Aquí os comento mi experiencia en el concierto de Loquillo del día 29 de abril de 2006.

Además de la lista de canciones pongo algunas fotos y videos del evento.

Even for a simple project, you need to avoid retrieving all table records in a query for performance reasons so you have to do custom paging.

If you have searched for examples of custom paging using TableAdapters you’ll probably find out that custom paging is implemented using stored procedures.

In this post I show how you can add custom paging to your TableAdapter without using stored procedures and with very little code.

I have finished a project that started as an enhancement of a “nearly finished” PHP web site.

I ended up using ASP.NET (and Atlas) instead of PHP to speed up development and to avoid primitive web development model.

In the last months I have got used to make a panoramic photograph of the places I have visited.

Here are two panoramic photographs I took at Mazarrón and Barcelona (both here at Spain)

ASP.NET 2.0 data binding infrastructure is a lot better than the previous binding infrastructure. However, for complex scenarios is not mature enough.

In this post I show an example of cascading DropDownLists inside a FormView and point out the problems that appear. Also, I show you how to make some instrusive smart hacking to avoid it.

InDesign exposes its functionality as a COM object so it can be used in Microsoft .NET Framework.

I explain some things that you have to keep in mind when working with InDesign in C#. There's also a sample to remove the carriage returns from the end of the footnotes.

Finally the Atlas control toolkit is available!

It has some cool controls but it's missing some IMHO

In previous posts we studied the functionality offered by ControlDesigner and we coded a custom data source sample.

To add design time functionality to our custom data source we need to understand the DataSourceDesigner class...

Before explaining the DataSourceDesigner class and all related classes/interfaces, we need a custom data source to be able to apply what we’ll learn about the DataSourceDesigner.

In this post I explain how to implement a custom DataSourceControl with similarities to the ObjectDataSource that ships with ASP.NET.

This post explains the properties and methods of the ControlDesigner class, the base class for all ASP.NET designers.